Ticket-case



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- T. RATGLIPF.

TICKET CASE.

Patented Oct. 16,1894.

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TICKET CASE.

Patented Oct. 16, 1894 g I i I 2 W Ann! ih esscs To aZZ whom) it may concern:

UNITED STATE f THOMAS RATOLIFF,

PATENT T OFFICE,

on CASEY, ILLINOIS.

TICKET-CAUSE.

. "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.527,508,dated October 16, 1894.

Application filed October 20. 1893}. semincisavze. (No model.) r

Be it known that I, THOMAS RATCLIFF, a

a citizen of the United States, residing at Casey, in the county of Clark and State of Illinois,

have invented a new and useful Ticket-Case, of which the following is a specification. My invention relates to a passage ticket case for use in connection with railways, steam-boat lines and other modes of public conveyance, and, it has for its object to provide means whereby an obligatory tally of the number and character of the tickets used upon the conveyance is kept, to prevent the disposal and use of counterfeit tickets and .15

i which have been sold. My improved system,

the withholding, by conductors, &c., of those which involves the use of a ticket case embodying my invention, contemplates providin g all tickets in duplicate, the original, which is to be held and used by the passenger and is to be accepted by the conductor and re turned by him to the office of the general passenger agent, being distinguished by color,

or otherwise, from the duplicate,which is received by the passenger and deposited, by the latter, in a tally-box or compartment forming apart of the improved ticket case, said tallybox or compartmentbeing accessible only to the proper oflicial havingcharge of the ticket accounts.

In carrying out mysystem Iemploy a case for tickets, from which the latter can be withdrawn only in a prescribed way, an original and a duplicate being exposed simultaneously. The purchaser immediately deposits the duplicate in the tally-box, thus making it necessary for the conductor'and the agent to account for the original of that duplicate. The tally-box is so constructedas to prevent the abstraction of the duplicate, and an original cannot be taken from the case without bringing its duplicate.

The construction whereby the above objcct is attained is fully described in connecthe novel features thereof are particularly tion with the accompanying drawings, and

j pointed out in the appended claims.

lar iew showingithe hinged sections of the case separated, and one of the inner doors of the ticket-compartments open to expose the ticket cells, slides, and adjacent construction. Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view, taken vertically throughthe ticketcompartments. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal sectional ticket-compartments.

responding parts in all the figures of the drawings. i r i a The case is divided longitudinally and vertically to form the separable sections,'l and 2, which are duplicates of each other in (H? struction and are hinged together at one end, as shown at 3. These sections are provided, near their free ends with vertical partitions,

from the smallerspace,6, which, when the sections areclosed together, forms a'tally-box or compartment, as shown clearly in Fig. 2. Theinner sides of the ticket-compartments are closed by the hinged doors, 7 ,which, when the sections are closed together, are in contact and are held in position by the locking devices for the sections, it which consist of hooks, 8, carried by the partition, 4, of one section and the eyes, 9, carried by the partition ofthe other section, whereby said lockingdevices are arranged in the tally-box and are inaccessible except therethrough. The interior of the ticket-compartments is divided, by vertical webs, 10, into cells 11, which correspond in width to the tickets, 12, (shown in Fig. 3,) and horizontally movable slides, 13, which are arranged in two or more horizon- 14, also corresponding in width with the cells. These slides are provided upon their under sides with dove-tailed projections, 15, which fit and slide in correspondingly shaped slots formed in the guides, 14., and are further tically a distance equal to thethickness of an original ticket and its duplicate, the latter being arranged alternately in the cells, as indicated by the light and shaded edges, (the cards with shaded edges being the duplicates.) Weights 17 are placed upon the tops of the view, taken vertically through one of the I doorof the tally-box open. Fig. 3 is asimi- V Similarnumerals of reference indicate cor- 4 to separate the ticket cOmparLments, 5,

tal series and are mounted upon the guides,

provided, upon their upper sides, at their inner ends with detents, 16, which project vertiers of tickets, to holdthe lowermost tickets in contact with the slides and insure the proper downward feeding thereof as the said lowermost tickets are withdrawn. The front ends of the ticket-slides project through slots,

18, in, the outer walls of the sections and are provided with suitable handles, 19, the out-' ward movement of the slides being limited by the contact of the depending projections,

15, with the stops, 20, formed bythe inner ends of the guide-slots. The surfaces of the doors, 7, are notched, as shown at 21, to 're-i ceive the inner ends of the slides, when the latter are pushed in,to enable the detent, 16, to passbeyond the inner ends of the tickets, as shown in Fig. 4f"

In the top of the tally-box is a ticket-slot, 22, through which the duplicate tickets may be inserted, andwithin the compartmenm'beneath said slot, is an inclined guard, 23, to preventthe tampering, by theagent or'others, with the contents.

guard. The door of the tally-box is provided with a lock, which is preferably of the combination or permutation'order, topreven't any but the duly authorized official from opening the case.

Various changes in the form, proportion,

. and details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of theadvantages of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- I 1. A ticket case provided with vertical cells 7 and having an open rear side, a door closing said rear side, guides arranged in the cells,

and slides mounted upon said guides, pro

jecting at their front ends through slots in the front side of the case and provided at their rearends with detents to engage the rear edges of the tickets in the cells, said door being provided with a series of notches or A receptacle, 24, is arranged in the bottom of the tally-box, to re- -ceivethe duplicates as they fall from the recesses to receive the detentson the rear ends of the slides when the latter are pushed rearward, substantially as specified.

3. A ticket case comprising separable sec tionsl and.2 hinged together at one vertical edge and provided at corresponding distances from said hinged ends with vertical part-itions 4, doors hinged to the sections to close their open inner sides and terminating at their free edges flush with the outersurfaces of the partitions 4:, means carried by said partitions to lock the free ends of the sections together with the said doorsin contact, whereby the doorsare lockedin their closed positions, a door for closing the outer sideof the space between the partitions 4 and the adjacent or free ends of the sections,

the interiors of the sections being'divided into ticket-cells fitted with ticket-slides, and

.a slot 22 being formed in the top of one of .the sections to communicate with the space between the partitions f and the contiguous ends of the sections, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as myown I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS .RATGLIFF,

Witnesses: I Mosns RATOLIFF,

GEORGE RATOLIFF. 

